SJA APUSH Period 3 Test Questions and
Answers 2024/2025
Although a few were outraged by the Stamp Act, most politically active colonists actually
supported it.
False
Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
False
The Sons of Liberty enforced a boycott of British goods.
True
Homespun clothing became a symbol of American resistance during the American boycott on
British goods.
True
The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce.
False
British soldiers were better equipped than American Continental army soldiers.
True
Which of the following did NOT specifically provide for direct or indirect taxes on the
colonies?
a. the Townshend Act
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b. the Tea Act
c. the Declaratory Act
d. the Stamp Act
e. the Sugar Act
c. the Declaratory Act
Virtual representation was the idea:
a. about representation that most politically active American colonists in the 1760s and 1770s
embraced
b. that only those who were elected by a given population could represent that population in
a legislative body
c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his
own district
d. endorsed by the Stamp Act Congress in 1765
e. that the king should appoint delegates to represent the colonies in the British House of
Commons
c. that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not
just his own district
What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part
of the cost of the empire?
a. King Phillip's War
b. the Boston Tea Party
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